Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science
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About 40 years ago, construction of the CVM facility was completed. AAVMC has demonstrated the need for 1,641,000 square feet of new facility and 611,000 square feet of refurbishment facility to train additional veterinarians and graduate students to meet the needs of public practice. Every biosafety level classroom, educational research institution, space for animal breeding research is necessary. Existing sources of funds such as state and university funds, donations from foundations and private funders are unlikely to meet domestic needs
Recommendation 4: AAVMC and its members need to decide how to economically and logically satisfy the requirements of the CVM facility. They should consider widespread support activities for educating federal and state policy makers on the need to increase facilities to train appropriate veterinary researchers. The Committee was unable to find a useful document on the facility needs of federal or state agencies to effectively fulfill its role in veterinary research, said the Department of Agriculture of the US Department of Agriculture's Research Facilities Strategic Planning Working Group Except for the report of: 10 years strategy plan excluded. Reporting and recommendation reports recommend renovating outdated facilities and point out the need for biological protection facilities for high risk pathogen research. Alternative facilities at the Ames National Animal Disease Center in Iowa State were designed and the first phase was built on the report but did not meet all of the recorded requirements. The expanded biospecimen facility space is one of the unsatisfied recommendations and it is highly appreciated by Homeland Security Director Directive 9 (HSPD - 9).
Recommendation 5: Recommendations of the 1999 USDA Department of Research Strategic Planning Working Group and HSPD-9 clause should be implemented immediately. The biological protection laboratory should pay special attention. The validity and deficiencies of federal and non-federal facilities necessary to support veterinary research should be documented and quantified. Other research resources for veterinary research include research materials such as libraries, databases, animal health monitoring and monitoring systems, electronic communication systems for sharing data and clinical information, specialized animal groups, and tissue samples Collections. In order to maximize research value and to use relatively small resources in the veterinary research community, effective communication between organizations involved in veterinary research is necessary. In particular, the database of clinical records exchanged between educational hospitals, private clinics, and diagnostic laboratories will provide data that can be used as a valuable cost-effective tool for retrospective and prospective studies . Likewise, tissue samples from other healthy animals and diseased animals and other specimens (serum, DNA, microorganisms etc.) provide exciting opportunities.
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